Gate News reports that on March 19, SlowMist founder Yu Xian posted on X platform expressing confusion over a certain CEX asking users to input their plaintext seed phrases for asset recovery. Yu Xian said such unsafe behavior is baffling, and he almost thought the subdomain had been hacked.
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